Mount v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is theft by false pretext under an indictment charging ordinary theft; the punishment, five years.

The appellant, a practicing attorney and secretary of the Home Guaranty Abstract Company, was manager of the Ridge-lea branch office of that company in the city of Fort Worth and, as such, had the authority to write insurance policies for the Commercial Standard Insurance Company. As a preliminary to the writing of such policies, it was business practice that notification called a “title binder” be sent to the person or firm who was to lend the money,…